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00:14Good morning, it's Thursday the 7th of May. I'm Marit Gwynn and you're watching Europe Today,
00:20your daily dose of morning news and analysis live here on Euronews.
00:25Coming up today, EU negotiators failed to reach an agreement on the bloc's trade deal with the US
00:32in late-night talks here in Brussels. Talks could resume on May the 19th. Pressure is mounting
00:39after President Trump threatened to hike tariffs on EU cars to 25%, a move that would be in breach
00:47of the deal. And oil prices have fallen amid reports Iran and the US are closing in on a
00:53deal to end the war. But Washington and Tehran have offered conflicting reports on the state
00:59of negotiations. We speak to the US's former ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker, about the
01:05conflict and its implications for the transatlantic alliance. Also, three people are being evacuated
01:12to Europe from the cruise ship at the center of a deadly Hantavirus outbreak. The ship is sailing
01:18towards the Canary Islands after the Spanish government gave permission for it to dock,
01:23despite the regional government there rejecting the request. We'll have more details on that story
01:29too. But first, to our top story this morning. EU diplomats, officials and lawmakers failed to give
01:35their final approval to the bloc's trade deal with the US during talks which stretched late into the
01:41night here in Brussels. The delay risks adding to the frustration of President Trump, who has,
01:46of course, threatened to hike tariffs on EU cars to 25%. For more, we can bring in our trade reporter,
01:53Peggy Corlan. Good morning, Peggy. Good morning. So no deal on implementing this agreement still.
02:00Tell us more. No deal. Yesterday night, EU lawmakers and EU member states didn't find an agreement
02:06to cut EU tariffs on US goods to 0% as agreed in the Thumbury Agreement. Let me remind you
02:14what this
02:14Thumbury Agreement is about. Last year, after weeks of trade disputes, the EU and the US agreed that they
02:22would impose US tariff at 15% on EU goods and that the EU would cut its tariff at 0%.
02:32So yesterday night,
02:34the Parliament's lead negotiator, the German MEP, Bernd Lange, wanted to attach conditions to the deal.
02:41The core objective was to shield the deal from future US threats, like the one made last week over EU
02:49cars, or like the one made a couple of months ago over Greenland. And the Parliament also wanted to
02:55make the deal temporary, which means expiring in March 2028, a couple of months before the end of
03:03Trump's mandate. Okay. And Peggy, I think we can also take a listen to what Maroshevkovic, the trade chief,
03:09who, of course, has been urging this deal to get over the line, had to say in Paris last night.
03:16We have to deliver on what was promised in Scotland, meaning lowering the tariffs for the
03:23US exports to European Union, as we agreed in our joint statement. And of course, for me,
03:30it's also very important that the United States would live up to the expectations and also would
03:36live up to what was agreed to the firmery. And I'm talking here about the return to 15% all
03:41-inclusive
03:42tariff, which was agreed up.
03:44And Peggy, we know that EU capitals' governments are part of these talks. What are they saying?
03:50Well, EU governments consider that the Parliament's demands go too far. But the diplomats I talked to
03:57yesterday night told me that there could be room for compromise. But it's too early.
04:01Yesterday night was about presenting each side's political line. And technical negotiations will
04:09come at a future stage for next round of negotiations. EU tropical, the capitals here are trying to
04:18balance two objectives. One, which is to avoid any move that would reinforce Trump's narrative,
04:26which is to say that the EU does not honor the deal, the temporary agreement, and at the same time,
04:34protect the agreement from future US threat. So here, there's room for compromise with the
04:41parliaments which pursue the same goal.
04:44Okay, Peggy, thank you so much for that comprehensive update. We'll be keeping an eye
04:48on developments in the coming weeks, of course.
04:50Now moving on, after two months of conflict, it appears that the US and Iran are closing in on a
04:56one-page, 14-point memo to end the war. Reports suggest the deal could include a moratorium on
05:02nuclear enrichment and the easing of some sanctions on Iran. A key question is when the Strait of Hormuz
05:07can fully reopen. But the war has already put transatlantic ties under immense strain. Our
05:13correspondent, Shauna Murray, caught up with the former US ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker,
05:19and started by asking him about his assessment of the prospects of a deal.
05:23It seems like there will be a mutually agreed opening of the Strait of Hormuz, so shipping can
05:31go in and out. There'll be an end to fighting, and there'll be a moratorium on uranium enrichment
05:39and a nuclear program with inspections. Those seem to be the outlines, probably also lifting of sanctions
05:45and returning funds to Iran. This is actually very, very similar to what was already in the JCPOA that
05:53was torn up. The difference is, if there are any, and if what we read in the press is to
05:59believe,
06:00are that we've destroyed most of Iran's power projection capability, so it'll take them a while
06:06to restore that. Which is what the JCPOA would have done if it had been able to continue after 2017.
06:14Right. Well, that would have expired, I believe, in 2018.
06:17They could have renegotiated. I mean, the path of the JCPOA, the years before it took to negotiate
06:22that as well. Yeah, in that sense, yes. So we are basically back where we were and achieving pretty
06:30much the same thing. So what can Donald Trump say that he achieved, particularly given the death
06:36toll? I mean, we saw 170 young schoolgirls killed on the first day of this war. I mean, then also
06:43other, obviously, civilian casualties and a regime still intact after it killed its own people back in
06:50January, which was actually the reason why this particular conflict started in the first place.
06:55There are many reasons why this conflict was there, and the reasons kept shifting. Sometimes
07:01President Trump referred to the protesters or the 45,000 people, as he said, killed. I'm not sure
07:08the number was quite that high, but a large number of people killed by the regime. Other times it was
07:13the nuclear program. Other times it was ballistic missiles. But what I think he can say he achieved is
07:20setting Iran back, both in terms of its military, its power projection capability, its proxies,
07:28and its nuclear program. All of that is physically set back substantially. But as you say, the regime
07:37does stay in place, and it does have the capability and the will to shut down shipping in the Persian
07:45Gulf if it wants to.
07:47And the issue is, though, that with the Strait of War, although it had been gamed that the Iranians
07:51could take control of it in the event of a war like this, they have institutionalized it now,
07:57the Iranians. They've sort of know, they know now that they can control this, turn it on and off
08:02as they like in the future.
08:04Yeah, that's right. And also, the business model of the Gulf states, of being a secure and relatively
08:11free place to do business globally, is shaken a bit by the fact that Iran has shown a willingness
08:18to fire missiles and drones at them. So that's going to take some time to restore confidence
08:22there as well. So in a way, the Iranian regime comes out of this emboldened, even though they
08:28have been substantially weakened.
08:29What do you think this means for NATO? We saw the US president abruptly announce the
08:35withdrawal of 5,000 troops because we haven't seen any strategy since from the Pentagon in relation to
08:40that.
08:40Let's put these into a couple of different categories. The first is President Trump's
08:44peek at NATO countries for not fighting alongside the US in the Persian Gulf. That's really, I think,
08:52a distraction. He never asked them to. There was no consultation. There was no agreement on a common
08:57plan. It was just a venting saying, well, you're not there for us, even though we're there for you.
09:03I don't think that is something we should take too seriously from a military point of view,
09:08but rather it is just a further reflection of President Trump's general unhappiness with
09:14NATO countries. Then you get to specific complaints about we were not able to use bases in Spain. We
09:21were not able to use bases in Italy. Germany said some nasty things about us. And so we're going to
09:27take some military steps. Well, there, I think we do have to take it seriously. President Trump is indeed
09:33unhappy and wants to take some steps. But then we have to look at what the US military
09:38wants to do. The presence of US forces in Europe is good for the United States.
09:47Ambassador Kurt Volker speaking to Shona Murray there. Now, three people with suspected
09:53Hantavirus are being evacuated from the cruise ship linked to the deadly outbreak of the virus.
09:58Three people have already died on the Dutch-flagged ship known as MV Hondias. The ship is now on its
10:05way to the Canary Islands. For more details on this story, I'm joined by our health reporter,
10:10Marta Iraola. Good morning, Marta. Bring us up to speed. Remind us the story of this cruise ship.
10:18Good morning. Yeah, we're talking about a luxury cruise ship that took off Argentina the 1st of April,
10:25carrying approximately 150 passengers. It has since then crossed the Atlantic, making some stops in
10:32the Sandwich Islands in Santa Elena until it arrived to Cabo Verde. Cabo Verde was the original destination
10:38of the ship. However, at the beginning of April, some people started to feel sick in what it has now
10:44been confirmed as an outbreak of Hantavirus, a rare rodent disease. Since then, there have been eight
10:51infected passengers. Three of them have died. Some others are being treated in the hospital and the
10:57three are being evacuated to the Netherlands. Okay, and now what do we know about the fate of the
11:03remaining passengers of this ship? Yeah, well, as you mentioned, the ship is now on its way to the
11:08Canary Island where it's set to arrive this weekend on Saturday to Tenerife. The passengers will likely
11:14disembark on Monday and will from there be taken to their own countries where they will be put in quarantine.
11:21This decision of taking the ship to the Canary Island has raised some tensions between the local
11:25government and the national government of Spain. Here is Fernando Clavijo who was here in Brussels
11:31and talked about this topic.
11:34Our technical position is that if the passengers are healthy, there is no risk of transmission.
11:39It makes no sense for them to have to travel to the Canary Islands to be repatriated. They can easily
11:44do so
11:44at the Cabo Verde International Airport. If we are truly considering the best interests of these
11:49passengers and ensuring they can return home to put an end to this nightmare, the reasonable course of
11:54action is for them to do so immediately.
11:58Still, the national government of Spain, the World Health Organization and the European Union
12:04consider that Spain is more than ready to receive these patients and launch the appropriate public
12:09health response that is more prepared than Cabo Verde. At the same time, the World Health Organization is
12:14tracking 23 passengers that disembarked the ship in Santa Elena and are now being tracked to see where they
12:21are and 80 other passengers that took a flight to South Africa with one of the passengers that later died.
12:28Okay, Marta, thank you so much for bringing us up to speed on that story. We'll be keeping an eye
12:33out
12:33for any further developments, of course. But we're moving on now. The European Commission says it is
12:38upping its commitments to promoting the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities by reviewing
12:44its long-term strategy. Our Europe editor, Maria Tadeo, sat down with the EU's Commissioner for Equality,
12:49Hajj Al-Abib, and started by asking her about the Commission's new initiatives.
12:55We are launching a new EU alliance for independent living, with a budget also to support
13:06service-based communities instead of institutions. And that is what we call deinstitutionalization,
13:16to be sure that a person with disabilities can live their own life independently. And it is about their
13:22dignity, their choice also. And then to put everything into place to be sure that they will
13:29have the capacity to be more included in the labor market.
13:33And I have to ask you, there's a very political question, but it matters because of the times that
13:39we're in. Some would argue there's been, well, pushback against the idea of inclusivity,
13:44that the political debate is sort of shifting into a form of right that is about power and might
13:52and looks at ideas of diversity, inclusivity. It is too woke. We don't want it. We don't like it
13:58anymore. Is that something that you're concerned about?
14:00Yes, I'm concerned about because I'm Commissioner for Equality and we see a regression when it comes
14:07to gender equality. And all kinds of, you know, discrimination is something that we need to
14:15combat because this is not the Europe we want to live in. We want a Europe that is forgetting no
14:24one,
14:24that is inclusive, that is diverse. This is our added value as a continent.
14:29So it's important to be very vocal. And that's why we had this strategy. We could have gone until
14:382030 without, you know, creating new flagship, new communication. But we did exactly the contrary.
14:46It means that equality, values, principles matter in our Europe and we are proud of.
14:52At what time horizon do you look at? What is something that is acceptable to you to see a Europe
14:59that looks
14:59like more like your proposal than the current one that we have?
15:03This is something that we should think about from yesterday, I would say, because it's linked to my
15:13other parts, my other competence, preparedness. We need to rebuild Ukraine, for instance,
15:21with having in mind the number of people who are wounded today. You know, I visited hospitals,
15:30where you see a lot of people imputed, unfortunately. And we need to have accessibility by design to be sure
15:41that when we rebuild new schools, new hospitals, new airports, that it is accessible, you know,
15:50from the starting point and not something that has an added afterthought.
15:54In this process, and I'm sure, as you said, you had many stories and you spoke to many different
16:01people. What did you learn personally out of this?
16:04That it's about all of us and it's about who we are and how we want to live. You know,
16:12if you want
16:12to live in a society where the most fragile, vulnerable are left behind, you can, you know,
16:19think that it could be you. It can be your mother. It can be your children, your child tomorrow.
16:25And so it creates a lot of anxiety and a lack of confidence also. And what we are doing,
16:33it's exactly the contrary. We are building a trustful society where you know that we care about you.
16:42We care about all of us.
16:47We're moving on now. A crucial set of elections are taking place in the UK today. Voters in Wales
16:54and Scotland choose who runs their devolved governments, while many parts of England
16:58will elect local councils and mayors. The results are expected to provide a snapshot
17:04of the UK's fast changing politics. Our Jakob Janis has more.
17:11Today, millions across the UK are heading to the polls. In parts of England, voters are electing
17:17local councils and several city mayors. And voters in Scotland and Wales are choosing who
17:22will lead their devolved governments. And while the EU has not been a prominent campaign topic,
17:28your reporter started to wonder, could these elections matter for the EU?
17:35In England, the traditional dominance of the Labour and Conservative parties is being challenged
17:40by two insurgent forces. Nigel Farage, Reform UK, and Zak Polanski, Green Party.
17:46With little experience in local infrastructure like bin collections or road repairs,
17:51their popularity was built on international issues. Brexit and immigration versus pro-EU stance,
17:58environmentalism and the conflict in Gaza. And amid growing unpopularity for Stammer's Labour government
18:04and low ratings for the Conservatives, parts of the public are seeking alternatives beyond the main
18:10parties. Moreover, predictions suggest Labour could lose nearly three quarters of its local council seats,
18:17its historic dominance in Wales and popularity in Scotland. And while Stammer is not on the ballot paper,
18:23a weak show for Labour could add to his domestic issues and disrupt his diplomatic UK-EU research.
18:30But here is a paradox. Ten years after Brexit referendum, recent surveys showed that majority of all voters
18:38now support rejoining the EU, rising even to over 80% among Labour and Green supporters. Yet, at the same
18:45time,
18:46the pro-Brexit Reform UK party is enjoying a massive surge, arguing that Brexit was completely mismanaged.
18:54And some even say they could from the future national governments.
18:58Alright, so even if these local elections are about fixing the potholes in the roads,
19:03Britons still seem to be unsure which road to take.
19:12And that's it from us for today. And today's show was in fact our 100th episode. Thank you to you
19:19for
19:19keeping us company today and every morning here on Europe Today. Euronews' Maeve McMahon and Sasha
19:25Vakulina will be moderating sessions at the European Business Summit in Brussels later. You can catch that
19:31on our live stream on our social media channels. And we'll be back again with you at the same time
19:36tomorrow.
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